Old Age and the Search for Security

Old Age and the Search for Security
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Publisher : Indiana University Press
Total Pages : 260
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ISBN-10 : 0253113024
ISBN-13 : 9780253113023
Rating : 4/5 (24 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Old Age and the Search for Security by : Carole Haber

Download or read book Old Age and the Search for Security written by Carole Haber and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1993-12-22 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Haber and Gratton lay to rest many conventional assumptions concerning the place of older persons in American history." -- Choice "Haber and Gratton's meaty little book does more than provide an intelligent synthesis of existing old-age history; its new interpretations, insights, and shifts of emphasis will provoke responses and help move historians' work away from the now threadbare original disputes in e field toward new questions and approaches." -- American Historical Review "Indeed, Haber and Gratton give us a refreshingly multidimensional history of the shift in old-age security from work, assets, or children to government annuities." -- Contemporary Sociology "... the history of old age has finally come of age. The authors successfully synthesize the best of the earlier social and cultural studies with new empirical evidence and recent findings of economic historians." -- Journal of Economic History "A truly 'revisionary' interpretation of the cultural and structural forces that shaped the elderly's lives from the colonial period to the present. Lucid and controversial, [it] is bound to be widely cited and hotly contested." -- W. Andrew Achenbaum This social history of the American elderly offers a provocative new view of aging in the United States. It revises traditional assumptions about the economic status of the old and challenges the long-held contention that industrialization destroyed family relationships.


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